Ho Tu Lo Shu: The book of dragons (Or how I want my CRPGs to be made)

[Alex]

Certain NPCs carry unique weapons/skill books which you can get by challenging and defeating them. Like those two white swordsmen in the city (who are related to a very complicated side quest). But you may get ebul points.

Why? I mean, shouldn't a challenge be kind of a neutral or honourable thing? This reminds me, I found a monk that killed an apprentice near the leopard king's stronghold. I had the option to challenge him for his technique, but preferred to let him go since I didn't want to challenge him while he was hurt, or fight against his apprentice, I let him go instead.

Anyway, thanks for clarifying that.

The "duels" are more like muggings. They give you good points if you beat up evil guys, evil points if you beat up good guys. It's best to keep yourself neutral for most of the game, because once you go evil it is almost impossible to swing back to good and it locks you out of all sorts of things.

 

[Darth Roxor]

The way party members drop onto the battlefield at combat start is bringing me many lulz.

 

[Alex]

Sorry to bother you guys again, but I am afraid something broke in my game.

I am trying to find someone named (maybe) Yu Kang-seok, a friend of the mummy guy in the "good samaritan house". As far as I can tell from what Su (Q)Chingrui said, he should be in the whorehouse... but I can't find anyone named that in there, and I've talked to everyone I could find. I am hoping that maybe I need to do some other mission first, since that quest seems to be tied up with a whole quest line, but I don't know. Did anyone encounter this problem before?

 

[Lhynn]

Sorry to bother you guys again, but I am afraid something broke in my game.

I am trying to find someone named (maybe) Yu Kang-seok, a friend of the mummy guy in the "good samaritan house". As far as I can tell from what Su (Q)Chingrui said, he should be in the whorehouse... but I can't find anyone named that in there, and I've talked to everyone I could find. I am hoping that maybe I need to do some other mission first, since that quest seems to be tied up with a whole quest line, but I don't know. Did anyone encounter this problem before?

Which village is that? Dont think ive gotten that far yet.

 

[felipepepe]

Sorry to bother you guys again, but I am afraid something broke in my game.

I am trying to find someone named (maybe) Yu Kang-seok, a friend of the mummy guy in the "good samaritan house". As far as I can tell from what Su (Q)Chingrui said, he should be in the whorehouse... but I can't find anyone named that in there, and I've talked to everyone I could find. I am hoping that maybe I need to do some other mission first, since that quest seems to be tied up with a whole quest line, but I don't know. Did anyone encounter this problem before?

I did that quest with no issues, but I had finished all the whorehouse quests before, so yeah, it might be that. You should at least try getting rid of the evil poison witch there, since that will make Fan Xiangdie appear.

 

[Alex]

Sorry to bother you guys again, but I am afraid something broke in my game.

I am trying to find someone named (maybe) Yu Kang-seok, a friend of the mummy guy in the "good samaritan house". As far as I can tell from what Su (Q)Chingrui said, he should be in the whorehouse... but I can't find anyone named that in there, and I've talked to everyone I could find. I am hoping that maybe I need to do some other mission first, since that quest seems to be tied up with a whole quest line, but I don't know. Did anyone encounter this problem before?

Which village is that? Dont think ive gotten that far yet.

Dayan town. Sorry for not mentioning it earlier. I thought saying there was a good samaritan house would be enough, but I have no idea if there are more.

Sorry to bother you guys again, but I am afraid something broke in my game.

I am trying to find someone named (maybe) Yu Kang-seok, a friend of the mummy guy in the "good samaritan house". As far as I can tell from what Su (Q)Chingrui said, he should be in the whorehouse... but I can't find anyone named that in there, and I've talked to everyone I could find. I am hoping that maybe I need to do some other mission first, since that quest seems to be tied up with a whole quest line, but I don't know. Did anyone encounter this problem before?

I did that quest with no issues, but I had finished all the whorehouse quests before, so yeah, it might be that. You should at least try getting rid of the evil poison witch there, since that will make Fan Xiangdie appear.

Did that already. I did break a trigger when doing it, where I managed to talk to the women around the body without being removed by the attendant. In the end, however, that quest finished without issues after I triggered the speech from one of the whores about she thinking my face is strange. I've also done the quest where you play matchmaker for the poor scholar. Furthermore, I now have Qi Xiaoer in my party, so maybe that will interfere with the quest somehow? I haven't done the hero of the tiger quest for the people who are in the poor samaritan house yet either, if that is important.

 

[abnaxus]

Is it the guy in speedo

 

[Alex]

Is it the guy in speedo

Damn it, the one guy I didn't talk to.

I had actually talked to him, but I forgot I only did that before the quest started. Thanks a bunch!

 

[Alex]

I apologise if I am being a pain.

I recently re-started the game and I had two questions.

First, does anyone know where to find the "Yakushino Collection" book, with the ability "Returning Qi and", which is an area heal skill? I remember getting it pretty early in my first playthough, but I can't remember where.

Food Stealing Kids Spoiler

If you tell the woman in the first village about the kids who are stealing her buns, they get thrown out. Eventually you find their dead bodies. Is there a way to stop them from being killed or is this just the game telling you their fate?

 

[Abu Antar]

I never snitched on the kids.

 

[notpl]

I apologise if I am being a pain.

I recently re-started the game and I had two questions.

First, does anyone know where to find the "Yakushino Collection" book, with the ability "Returning Qi and", which is an area heal skill? I remember getting it pretty early in my first playthough, but I can't remember where.

Food Stealing Kids Spoiler

If you tell the woman in the first village about the kids who are stealing her buns, they get thrown out. Eventually you find their dead bodies. Is there a way to stop them from being killed or is this just the game telling you their fate?

Could that be the healing book you get from giving the snake king's corpse to the traveling healer in the first town? If you gave it to the poison girl instead, I believe you can still pickpocket/beat him up for it.

There's also a healing book you get in the second village from helping the collapsed village elder, but only if you do it a certain way that I can no longer recall well enough to guide you. I think it comes down to whom you speak to first.

 

[Alex]

I apologise if I am being a pain.

I recently re-started the game and I had two questions.

First, does anyone know where to find the "Yakushino Collection" book, with the ability "Returning Qi and", which is an area heal skill? I remember getting it pretty early in my first playthough, but I can't remember where.

Food Stealing Kids Spoiler

If you tell the woman in the first village about the kids who are stealing her buns, they get thrown out. Eventually you find their dead bodies. Is there a way to stop them from being killed or is this just the game telling you their fate?

Could that be the healing book you get from giving the snake king's corpse to the traveling healer in the first town? If you gave it to the poison girl instead, I believe you can still pickpocket/beat him up for it.

Nah, I got that one. That ones has two skills, for boosting attack and defence respectively.

 

[Alex]

I apologise if I am being a pain.

I recently re-started the game and I had two questions.

First, does anyone know where to find the "Yakushino Collection" book, with the ability "Returning Qi and", which is an area heal skill? I remember getting it pretty early in my first playthough, but I can't remember where.

Food Stealing Kids Spoiler

If you tell the woman in the first village about the kids who are stealing her buns, they get thrown out. Eventually you find their dead bodies. Is there a way to stop them from being killed or is this just the game telling you their fate?

Could that be the healing book you get from giving the snake king's corpse to the traveling healer in the first town? If you gave it to the poison girl instead, I believe you can still pickpocket/beat him up for it.

Nah, I got that one. That ones has two skills, for boosting attack and defence respectively.

Actually, nevermind that, the one you get from the snake corpse has no skills, only recipes, for poison pills and ice heart pills (but still isn't the one I am looking for).

 

[InD_ImaginE]

I apologise if I am being a pain.

I recently re-started the game and I had two questions.

First, does anyone know where to find the "Yakushino Collection" book, with the ability "Returning Qi and", which is an area heal skill? I remember getting it pretty early in my first playthough, but I can't remember where.

Food Stealing Kids Spoiler

If you tell the woman in the first village about the kids who are stealing her buns, they get thrown out. Eventually you find their dead bodies. Is there a way to stop them from being killed or is this just the game telling you their fate?

Could that be the healing book you get from giving the snake king's corpse to the traveling healer in the first town? If you gave it to the poison girl instead, I believe you can still pickpocket/beat him up for it.

Nah, I got that one. That ones has two skills, for boosting attack and defence respectively.

Actually, nevermind that, the one you get from the snake corpse has no skills, only recipes, for poison pills and ice heart pills (but still isn't the one I am looking for).

Might be wrong coz I kinda forgot but I think you need to: 1. in the 1st village do sidequest to make some soup for a grandma, she gives you a medicine book. Learn that on MC. Then on the nearby village (Shu Shujin? something like that) you do the main line until you meet a doctor NPC and one of the response is some sort of "Akhsually I am kinda a doctor myself" because you know the previous medicine arts then he will give you one that has AoE heal

 

[Alex]

I apologise if I am being a pain.

I recently re-started the game and I had two questions.

First, does anyone know where to find the "Yakushino Collection" book, with the ability "Returning Qi and", which is an area heal skill? I remember getting it pretty early in my first playthough, but I can't remember where.

Food Stealing Kids Spoiler

If you tell the woman in the first village about the kids who are stealing her buns, they get thrown out. Eventually you find their dead bodies. Is there a way to stop them from being killed or is this just the game telling you their fate?

Could that be the healing book you get from giving the snake king's corpse to the traveling healer in the first town? If you gave it to the poison girl instead, I believe you can still pickpocket/beat him up for it.

Nah, I got that one. That ones has two skills, for boosting attack and defence respectively.

Actually, nevermind that, the one you get from the snake corpse has no skills, only recipes, for poison pills and ice heart pills (but still isn't the one I am looking for).

Might be wrong coz I kinda forgot but I think you need to: 1. in the 1st village do sidequest to make some soup for a grandma, she gives you a medicine book. Learn that on MC. Then on the nearby village (Shu Shujin? something like that) you do the main line until you meet a doctor NPC and one of the response is some sort of "Akhsually I am kinda a doctor myself" because you know the previous medicine arts then he will give you one that has AoE heal

I got the one I mentioned first from that quest, the one that allows you to improve attack and defense.

I am beginning to think that you can get either book from that quest, depending on whether you turn in the stone he mentions or not. I might check it later, you can get that quest before doing stuff in the first village, so it should be pretty quick to check. Anyway, maybe I can find the book later on then? Medical books seem pretty hard to come by to be honest.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Is there any way to somehow reliably figure out how much damage you'll do with an attack? The numbers shown in the descriptions seem completely random to me, and I can never tell whether I'll smack a guy for 100 or 400 damage with something.

 

[Abu Antar]

I think it has to do with enemy resistance and crits, but numbers will still vary here and there.

 

[Lhynn]

Is there any way to somehow reliably figure out how much damage you'll do with an attack? The numbers shown in the descriptions seem completely random to me, and I can never tell whether I'll smack a guy for 100 or 400 damage with something.

Thats odd, the same skill seems to do reliably the same damage against anyone ive encountered. Perhaps its a perk that makes your damage vary wildly when you fulfill certain conditions?

Maybe it may swing 50-100 damage between one cast and the next, thats down to armor, but most armor isnt that high so far. Perhaps 100 armor in the toughest foe ive fought.

 

[InD_ImaginE]

Enemy skill in particular martial arts also double as their defense for it. E.g. someone with high Fist skill going to take less damage from Fist skills and vice versa.

 

[notpl]

Is there any way to somehow reliably figure out how much damage you'll do with an attack? The numbers shown in the descriptions seem completely random to me, and I can never tell whether I'll smack a guy for 100 or 400 damage with something.

The big thing you need to realize is that move damage is highly dependent on your affinity with yin or yang. The border around a technique tells you what type it is: red > orange > gray < blue < purple. Maxing out your yang energy will cause red moves to do dramatically more damage, the opposite is true for purples, and trying to use either one of these early game when you HAVEN'T cultivated the requisite energy type is futile. This is why the five venom palm technique from the starter poison book is so damn weak when you first try it. If you invest the time and energy into maxing out your yin, though, it's the maybe strongest low-AP attack in the game.

You also need to pick one of these early on and stick with it, since you can only cultivate your chi through a limited number of internal styles. You don't want to end up stuck in the middle with no room left to grow, so a yin character should not learn any yang styles. Yang-centric internal styles are a bit more common, so a yang character can afford to dip into yin a bit and make up the shortfall over time.

 

[True Ukrainian]

Is there any way to somehow reliably figure out how much damage you'll do with an attack? The numbers shown in the descriptions seem completely random to me, and I can never tell whether I'll smack a guy for 100 or 400 damage with something.

Thats odd, the same skill seems to do reliably the same damage against anyone ive encountered. Perhaps its a perk that makes your damage vary wildly when you fulfill certain conditions?

Maybe it may swing 50-100 damage between one cast and the next, thats down to armor, but most armor isnt that high so far. Perhaps 100 armor in the toughest foe ive fought.

Debuffs stack in combat as well. Particularly poison which will eventually trash your damage. Many healing items inflict poison when used.

 

[v1rus]

This looks real good.

But no way in hell am I gonna play a game thats literally in Chinese.

Is there a chance its ever going to get translated?

 

[InD_ImaginE]

Is there a chance its ever going to get translated?

THere is fan patch in the workshop.

 

[GuardHei]

Definitely the best open world Wuxia rpg I ever played. Based on an early interview, they were aiming to create a fallout/elder-scroll like Wuxia game and I was so impressed that they somehow nailed it. Sure, the choices are sometimes limited, but the content is rich and quests are interesting.

I've been trying to promote this game to my friends but most of ppl just got turned down by the graphics and the slow start. Technical issue is the no.1 problem here, yet after years of patching the game is certainly playable. There is a mod called "世界丰富2.0" that adds a bunch of new contents to the game as well as changes the combat mechanics a lot, basically like a large dlc to play with (only in Chinese though)

I always wish 河洛 can bring the sequal to the table but so far it seems no hope. They were in trouble with their previous publisher and became less ambitious due to finacial pressures. Path of Wuxia and the new rouge-lite card game just ain't my taste.

 

[True Ukrainian]

Definitely the best open world Wuxia rpg I ever played. Based on an early interview, they were aiming to create a fallout/elder-scroll like Wuxia game and I was so impressed that they somehow nailed it. Sure, the choices are sometimes limited, but the content is rich and quests are interesting.

I've been trying to promote this game to my friends but most of ppl just got turned down by the graphics and the slow start. Technical issue is the no.1 problem here, yet after years of patching the game is certainly playable. There is a mod called "世界丰富2.0" that adds a bunch of new contents to the game as well as changes the combat mechanics a lot, basically like a large dlc to play with (only in Chinese though)

I always wish 河洛 can bring the sequal to the table but so far it seems no hope. They were in trouble with their previous publisher and became less ambitious due to finacial pressures. Path of Wuxia and the new rouge-lite card game just ain't my taste.

I heard that Heluo got into some kind of legal trouble over the use of certain characters and plot points. The game also had a disastrous launch in the Chinese market with notoriously bad optimisation and loading bugs that could derail the main quest line.